Plastic living

26/1/12

Music: Alamaailman Vasarat

As you look beyond your windows what is it that you see?
Are the men in the streets truely free?
Do the women turn in their sleep for their nature?
Or are their concerns a result of this fucked up world?

Do you live in an estate, plastic trees lining manicured lawns?
Late-model automobiles combing suburban sprawl
Like ants across the picnic rug, searching for crumbs
Crumbs left by the high society they aspire to be

Do you live in the country, perhaps?
Surrounded for miles by the wilderness?
That is, of carefully plowed fields and planned parks
As designed of course, by men miles away and six feet underground

Is your home a donation, a moment of charity?
By the gracious men who take their ten percent
Every time you buy into their "free" market system
Every dime you could spare to pay your own rent



At home in the city; are you?
In an apartment identical to one built
In Cairo, or Beirut, or Singapore, Minsk?
By the same corporation, which;

Built the automobiles, and the estates too;
And buy the grain from the fields plowed by you;
Exploit the political free market system;
Your job, your schools, everything you do;

Can you afford to live on your own?
Of course not; you're dependent on family and state
The same family once dependent on theirs
The same state dependent on support from you
The same state dependent on corporate support
The same state controlled by men miles away and six feet underground

And of course; one day; one of those men might be you.
For the corporation is our nature, control is our nature,
And in this fucked up world, if you can get power
You've little choice but to use it.
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Today was Australia Day, a day whose meaning is irrelevant and mostly forgotten, a day utilised by bogans to excuse their racism, leftists to attack conservatives, conservatives to attack leftists, politicians to score points, and big business to make a crapload of money.

Hence, I spent the day working for double time pay, drinking beer and eating kangaroo steak.

Gonna binge-watch Pokemon with Laura tomorrow. Fuck yes.